"in Greek, Latin and French; moreover, George Chapman's first part of the Homer edition contained an English version. Shakespeare probably knew the Iliad translation of his contemporary and poetic rival Chapman and probably drew her for some details of his work, but unmistakably resorted in essential areas to the medieval and post-medieval traditions of tradition. However, the two storylines of Troilus and Cressida, the love story for the title characters and the warfare mainly around Hektor, Ajax and Achilles, have a completely different origin. While the warfare is of ancient origins and is at the core of the Troy saga"
"turning Ajax's bluster against him. Once the contenders withdraw, the generals decide to award Achilles' armor to Ulysses. The play's second scene is devoted to Ajax's madness: Ajax has lost his mind as a result of his defeat to Ulysses, and eventually commits suicide. The brief final scene shows Ajax's funeral. The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles is a Caroline era stage play, an interlude written by James Shirley and first published in 1659. As its title indicates, the subject of the play is a staple of the classical"
"The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles is a Caroline era stage play, an interlude written by James Shirley and first published in 1659. As its title indicates, the subject of the play is a staple of the classical literature; Shirley most likely drew upon Book 13 of the ""Metamorphoses"" of Ovid as his direct source, along with Thomas Heywood's play ""The Iron Age."" The play was first printed in an octavo volume issued by the bookseller John Crooke, containing both ""The Contention"" and another play by Shirley, ""Honoria and"
"Ajax (play) Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias ( or ; , gen. ), is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. ""Ajax"" may be the earliest of Sophocles' seven tragedies to have survived, though it is probable that he had been composing plays for a quarter of a century already when it was first staged. It appears to belong to the same period as his ""Antigone"", which was probably performed in 442 or 441 BCE, when he was 55 years old. The play depicts the fate of the warrior Ajax, after the events of the ""Iliad"" but before the"
"to abusive remarks to all he encounters. He begins as Ajax's slave, telling Ajax, ""I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had the scratching of thee; I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece."" Thersites soon leaves Ajax and puts himself into the service of Achilles (portrayed by Shakespeare as a kind of bohemian figure), who appreciates his bitter, caustic humor. Shakespeare mentions Thersites again in his later play ""Cymbeline"", when Guiderius says, ""Thersites' body is as good as Ajax' / When neither are alive."" Laurence Sterne writes of Thersites in the last volume of"
"and Ajax won wrestling, Nobody will wrestle Idomenlus, Epeios and Akanas box, Teukros wins the archery competition. There is a heated argument between Odysseus and Ajax over which one of them is most deserving of receiving Achilles armor. The Trojan prisoners are asked to decide which one of them was the better warrior during the defense of Achilles’ body. The hero that fought most bravely and valiantly will be awarded the armor. It is decided that Odysseus will receive the armor. Similar to the Sophoclean play ""Ajax"", this leads to Ajax's suicide, and Odysseus speaks his regret at the funeral."
"defends the body, killing Glaukos, who falls on top of Achilles. Ajax also injures Aeneas. Odysseus helps Ajax defend Achilles’ body. Ajax stuns Paris by hitting him with a rock, forcing Paris to give up his attempt to take the corpse. The Greeks successfully drive the Trojans off and rescue Achilles’ body, bringing it back to the Greek camp. Ajax is the first to eulogize Achilles, then Phoinix, Agamemnon, Briseis, and Thetis, Achilles mother. Kalliope tells Thetis that her son will always be remembered. The Greeks then compete in the funeral games: Teukros and Ajax competed for 10 cows, Diomedes"
"midtown Manhattan. It set the play Sophocles' original location of Troy and featured Matthew Hansen in the title role. Timberlake Wertenbaker's play ""Our Ajax"", which was first performed in November 2013 at the Southwark Playhouse, London, was inspired by Sophocles' tragedy. It has a contemporary military setting, with references to modern warfare including the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wertenbaker made use of interviews with current and former servicemen and women in developing the play. Ajax (play) Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias ( or ; , gen. ), is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. ""Ajax"" may be"
"father's going to exile, which is one of his bitterest charges against them. In addition to the three Theban plays, there are four surviving plays by Sophocles: ""Ajax"", ""Women of Trachis"", ""Electra"", and ""Philoctetes"", the last of which won first prize in 409 BC in which it competed. ""Ajax"" focuses on the proud hero of the Trojan War, Telamonian Ajax, who is driven to treachery and eventually suicide. Ajax becomes gravely upset when Achilles’ armor is presented to Odysseus instead of himself. Despite their enmity toward him, Odysseus persuades the kings Menelaus and Agamemnon to grant Ajax a proper burial."
"it. Before his suicide, Ajax calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus (Menelaus and Agamemnon) and the whole Greek army. Tecmessa is the first one to discover Ajax’s body. Teucer then arrives and orders that Ajax’s son be brought to him so that he will be safe from foes. Menelaus appears and orders the body not to be moved. The last part of the play is taken up with an angry dispute regarding what to do with Ajax’s body. The two kings, Agamemnon and Menelaus, want to leave the body unburied for scavengers to ravage, while Ajax’s half-brother Teucer"
"Like Ajax, he is represented as living after his death in the island of Leuke, at the mouth of the Danube River, where he is married to Helen. A great battle raged around the dead Achilles. Ajax held back the Trojans, while Odysseus carried the body away. When Achilles' armour was offered to the smartest warrior, the two that had saved his body came forward as competitors. Agamemnon, unwilling to undertake the invidious duty of deciding between the two competitors, referred the dispute to the decision of the Trojan prisoners, inquiring of them which of the two heroes had done"
"can still claim that Achilles would have won in his place. At the same time, by choosing Ajax as their champion, they will infuriate Achilles and perhaps goad him into rejoining the war, bringing with him all his soldiers. Nestor, impressed with Ulysses's intelligence, agrees to the plan. In the Greek camp, Ajax summons his slave, Thersites, and orders him to find out the nature of the proclamation that has just been posted. Thersites, a foul-mouthed ruffian, refuses to obey and instead curses his master and the Greeks with equal vigor, provoking Ajax to beat him. Achilles and Patroclus come"
"of this very intimate, seemingly relaxed scene as a symbol for the Trojan War, this vase-painting also showcases the talent of Exekias as an artist: the figures of both Achilles and Ajax are decorated with fine incised details, showing elaborate textile patterns and almost every hair in place. There is no extant literary source that is known to have circulated in the sixth century BC in Athens regarding a narrative involving Ajax and Achilles playing a board game. Exekias may have drawn his inspiration for this innovative composition from local oral bardic traditions regarding the Trojan War, which may have"
"each claims Achilles' magical armor, which had been forged on Mount Olympus by the smith-god Hephaestus, for himself as recognition for his heroic efforts. A competition is held to determine who deserves the armor. Ajax argues that because of his strength and the fighting he has done for the Greeks, including saving the ships from Hector, and driving him off with a massive rock, he deserves the armor. However, Odysseus proves to be more eloquent, and with the aid of Athena, the council gives him the armor. Ajax, ""Unconquered"", and furious, becomes crazed and slaughters the Achaians' herds of captured"
"in Greek works of art, such as the chest of Cypselus described by Pausanias and in extant works. Ajax the Lesser Ajax ( ""Aias"") was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the ""lesser"" or ""Locrian"" Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon. He was the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War. He is a significant figure in Homer's ""Iliad"" and is also mentioned in the ""Odyssey"", in Virgil's ""Aeneid"" and in Euripides' ""The Trojan Women"". In Etruscan legend, he was known as ""Aivas Vilates"". Ajax's"
"that this connection is one of the reasons Exekias chooses to depict Ajax so often. Exekias is known for being able to show tension and emotion in scenes very well. Ajax was considered the second-best hero at Troy, after his friend Achilles. Once Achilles dies, Ajax and Odysseus debate over who should receive his armor. When Odysseus is given the armor, Ajax goes mad. He kills Greek cattle believing that it is the Greeks. Once he becomes aware of what he has done, he commits suicide. Ajax believes that after the cattle incident, killing himself is the only way to"
"Eurysaces Eurysaces (Ancient Greek: Εὐρυσάκην) in Greek mythology was the son of the Ajax and the former-princess captive-slave girl Tecmessa. He was venerated in Athens. Eurysaces was named after his father's famous shield. In Sophocles' tragedy ""Ajax"", the protagonist hands the shield to his young son before committing suicide. Eurysace was then taken to Ajax’s native land, Salamis Island, and he soon became king there. Eurysaces’s uncle Teucer, founded the town of Salamis on Cyprus, and later attempted to return to the island, but he was repelled by Eurysaces. Teucer later established Galacia in Spain. Sophocles wrote a play titled"
"still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus. Like Achilles, he is represented (although not by Homer) as living after his death on the island of Leuke at the mouth of the Danube. Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called ""Aianteia"" was celebrated in his honour. At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was"
"Ajax the Great Ajax or Aias ( or ; Greek , gen. ""Aiantos""; archaic ) is a mythological Greek hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an important role, and is portrayed as a towering figure and a warrior of great courage in Homer's ""Iliad"" and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. He is also referred to as ""Telamonian Ajax"" (, in Etruscan recorded as ""Aivas Tlamunus""), ""Greater Ajax"", or ""Ajax the Great"", which distinguishes him from Ajax, son of Oileus (Ajax the Lesser). Ajax"
"weapons are offered as a prize for the greatest hero; and there develops a dispute over them between Ajax and Odysseus. There the ""Aethiopis"" ends; it is uncertain whether the judgment of Achilles' armor, and subsequent suicide of Ajax, were told in the ""Aethiopis"", in the next epic in the Cycle, the ""Little Iliad"", or in both. Events told in the story of the ""Aethiopis"" were popular among ancient Greek vase painters. Especially popular scenes are the death of Penthesilea, and Ajax's retrieval of Achilles' corpse. Despite being poorly attested, the ""Aethiopis"" is frequently cited in modern scholarship on the"
"epics contained in the ""Chrestomatheia"" (see also chrestomathy) attributed to an unknown ""Proclus"" (possibly to be identified with the 2nd-century CE grammarian Eutychius Proclus). Numerous other references give indications of the poem's storyline. The poem, ""a fast-paced episodic epic with a lot of ground to cover""—which opened it to Aristotle's criticism that it had more plot than an epic should have—opens with the judgment of Achilles' arms, which are to be awarded to the greatest Greek hero: the contest is between Ajax and Odysseus, who recovered Achilles' body in battle. With the help of Athena, the arms are awarded to"
"Ajax the Lesser Ajax ( ""Aias"") was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the ""lesser"" or ""Locrian"" Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon. He was the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War. He is a significant figure in Homer's ""Iliad"" and is also mentioned in the ""Odyssey"", in Virgil's ""Aeneid"" and in Euripides' ""The Trojan Women"". In Etruscan legend, he was known as ""Aivas Vilates"". Ajax's mother's name was Eriopis. According to Strabo, he was born in Naryx in Locris, where Ovid calls him"
"fight or die in the light of day has become proverbial. According to Hyginus, in total, Ajax killed 28 people at Troy. As the ""Iliad"" comes to a close, Ajax and the majority of other Greek warriors are alive and well. When Achilles dies, killed by Paris (with help from Apollo), Ajax and Odysseus are the heroes who fight against the Trojans to get the body and bury it with his companion, Patroclus. Ajax, with his great shield and spear, manages to recover the body and carry it to the ships, while Odysseus fights off the Trojans. After the burial,"
"of the mythological past can be seen on the Vatican amphora 344, which is regarded by some art historians as Exekias' masterpiece. The Vatican amphora depicts Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, with both men identified by their names added in the genitive. Ajax and Achilles sit across from each other, looking down at a block situated between them. The board game they are playing, which might be compared to a backgammon or checkers variant, was played with a die. According to the words written next to the two players, Achilles proclaims he has thrown a four, while Ajax"
"also meant to incite why it is that Pytheas fights for the wreaths of the games: to obtain the undying glory that the heroes of old now possess for their deeds. Bacchylides then sings the praises of Pytheas' home, the island Aegina, and how ""her fame excites a dancer’s praise."" Bacchylides continues this dancer allusion in praise of Aegina, and ends it by listing some famous men who were born on the island, namely Peleus and Telamon. Bacchylides then tells of the greatness of these men’s sons, Achilles and Ajax, alluding to a second myth, the tale of Ajax repelling"
"end of the Trojan War. The great warrior Achilles has been killed in battle. As the man who now can be considered the greatest Greek warrior, Ajax feels he should be given Achilles’ armor, but the two kings, Agamemnon and Menelaus, award it instead to Odysseus. Ajax becomes furious about this and decides to kill them. However, Athena steps in and deludes Ajax into instead killing the spoil of the Greek army, which includes cattle as well as the herdsman. Suddenly Ajax comes to his senses and realizes what he has done. Overwhelmed by shame, he decides to commit suicide."
"is said to have visited the tomb of Achilles at Achilleion while passing Troy. In AD 216 the Roman Emperor Caracalla, while on his way to war against Parthia, emulated Alexander by holding games around Achilles' tumulus. The Greek tragedian Aeschylus wrote a trilogy of plays about Achilles, given the title ""Achilleis"" by modern scholars. The tragedies relate the deeds of Achilles during the Trojan War, including his defeat of Hector and eventual death when an arrow shot by Paris and guided by Apollo punctures his heel. Extant fragments of the ""Achilleis"" and other Aeschylean fragments have been assembled to"
"he entered the gates of Troy, Achilles was fatally struck with an arrow shot by Paris, assisted by Apollo. Odysseus and Ajax retrieved the body of Achilles. The Achaeans then hold burial rights for both Antilochus and Achilles. The burial of Achilles is attended by the goddess mother of Achilles, Thetis, along with her sisters and the muses. Following the funerals, the Achaeans honored Achilles' death with ceremonial games. In the games, Ajax and Odysseus competed for the title of greatest hero and for the grand prize of Achilles of precious armor. The ""Little Iliad"" follows the events of the"
"island's king, Lycomedes. Various misunderstandings follow, including an attempt by Lycomedes to rape ""Pyrrha"". Lycomedes's wife, Theaspe, seeks to dispose of ""Pyrrha"" by marrying ""her"" to her nephew Periphas; at which Achilles complains ""I have no sooner escap'd being ravish'd but I am immediately to be made a Wife"". Deidamia becomes pregnant, and Ulysses recognizes Achilles. The truth is out and Achilles and Deidamia marry; Achilles then leaves to take part in the Trojan Wars. Notes Sources Achilles (opera) Achilles is a ballad opera by John Gay, first performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1733, a year after"
"""Aethiopis"". The epic starts in middle of the funeral games for Achilles with Odysseus and Ajax competing for the armor of Achilles and the title of the greatest hero. After competing back and forth for some time, Odysseus, with the help of Athena, claimed victory over Ajax. Following his defeat, Ajax became mad and committed suicide. As ""The Battle of Frogs and Mice"" begins, Puff-jaw, a frog, inquisitively asks the identity of the stranger, a mouse, near the edge of the water. The mouse replies that he is Crumb-snatcher, and he proceeds to boast about the abilities of mice. Becoming"
"Ajax (comics) Ajax is the codename belonging to two different characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. One character is the descendant of a demigod, the other a mercenary. The mercenary Ajax is portrayed by Ed Skrein in the 2016 feature film ""Deadpool"". Ajax first appeared in ""The Incredible Hulk"" #379 (March 1991), and was created by writer Peter David and artist Dale Keown. Ajax is a member of the Pantheon, and is one of the descendants of the immortal Agamemnon, along with Achilles, Atalanta, Cassiopeia, Delphi, Hector, Paris, Perseus, Prometheus, and Ulysses. Ajax was born in"
"on why they were the bravest after Achilles to their Trojan prisoners, who after considering both men, decided Odysseus was more deserving of the armour. Furious, Ajax cursed Odysseus, which earned him the ire of Athena. Athena temporarily made Ajax so mad with grief and anguish that he began killing sheep, thinking them his comrades. After a while, when Athena lifted his madness and Ajax realized that he had actually been killing sheep, Ajax was left so ashamed that he committed suicide. Odysseus eventually gave the armour to Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. A relic claimed to be Achilles' bronze-headed"
"excerpted and reproduced, sometimes under the title of ""Death the Leveller."" Included in collections of familiar quotations, the poem is the most famous and popular work in Shirley's canon; Louisa May Alcott quotes its concluding line in ""Little Women."" The poem was set to music, and was well known as a song — King Charles II was reportedly fond of it. The play is set in the Grecian camp outside the walls of Troy, during the Trojan War; it opens soon after the death of Achilles, with the pages of Ajax and Ulysses disputing the relative worths of their masters."